Addenda to the Draft Decree onThe Procedure for Sending Commissars Out to the Provinces[1]

Written:April 5, 1918Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXI.

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3)TheSoviets shall give every assistance to commissars
invested with proper authority, within the limits of such authority.

4)TheSoviets shall render unconditional assistance to all
commissars extraordinary and other commissars who areappointed by the Council of People’s Commissars. Execution of the orders of
these commissars is obligatory for all local and regional Soviets.

[1]TheDraft Decree on the Procedure To Be Followed by the Various
Commissariats in Sending Their Commissars and Agents Out to the Provinces
submitted by the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was discussed
at the meeting of the C.P.C. on April 1, 1918. The C.P.C. asked all the
commissariats to consider the draft and give their comments. On April 5 the
decree was endorsed with Lenin’s addenda and on April 11, 1918, it was
published inIzvestia(seeDecrees of the Soviet
Government,Vol. II, Moscow, 1959, pp. 58-59).